A new learning Campus is being constructed to serve the Tain community. The new campus is for children aged 3-18 and also includes a Gaelic school and additional support needs school. The building is situated on the edge of the town and is built on a sloped field. The site will be graded in to platforms to deal with the 20m change in level to provide car parking, playing fields and the campus building.

The school has two levels of teaching space with a large central atrium area and an internal plant room floor with a total GIFA of 11000m2. There is a feature roof that has multiple pitches to reflect the local landscape. The school is being designed to PassivHaus standards. This requires careful detailing and coordination between the design team to meet the stringent thermal and air tightness requirements. To help with daylighting requirements sky lights and a Brise soleil are included in the design.

The building structure is a steel braced frame. The floors slabs are composite decking to provide the most efficient steel design for the floor beams. The steel is aligned to the classroom grids to provide a highly efficient steel design that minimises the structural transfers required. The roof has sloped steel members with a structural roofdeck that is aligned with the final architectural surface to simplify the roof build up details on site. The envelope is formed of both precast panels at ground floor and rainscreen cladding supported by SFS. The SFS sits offset from the steelwork zone to aid the air tightness detailing for PassivHaus.